wyszukanych pozycji: 56
London: The Biography
ISBN: 9780099422587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 848 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. A masterpiece -- the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong passion for the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original. Perhaps the most important study of the city ever written, London confirms Ackroyd's status as what one critic called, "our age's greatest London imagination." Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London, but this new book is his definitive account of the city. For Ackroyd's London is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is The...
A masterpiece -- the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong passion for the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and ...
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152,03 zł |
Civil War: The History of England Volume III
ISBN: 9781447271697 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II. The Stuart dynasty brought together the two nations of England and Scotland into one realm, albeit a realm still marked by political divisions that echo to this day. More importantly, perhaps, the Stuart era was marked by the cruel depredations of civil war, and the killing of a king. Ackroyd paints...
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who...
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89,55 zł |
London: A Traveller's Reader
ISBN: 9781472141651 / Angielski / Miękka / 2024 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The rich and glorious past of one of the great cities of the world is brought vividly to life for today's reader in this collection of letters, diaries and memoirs of visitors to London and of Londoners themselves.
The rich and glorious past of one of the great cities of the world is brought vividly to life for today's reader in this collection of letters, diarie...
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82,91 zł |
The Second Book of Samuel
ISBN: 9780521097543 / Angielski / Miękka / 1977 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Like the other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, this contains an introduction followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sections. Each section of the text is followed by the commentary upon it. The Second Book of Samuel tells how David took full control of both the northern and southern Hebrew kingdoms and consolidated his power throughout the region. Professor Ackroyd's commentary concentrates on interpretation rather than historical reconstruction, and part of his introduction dealing with the theological significance of the Books of Samuel relates the religious...
Like the other volumes of the Cambridge Bible Commentary, this contains an introduction followed by the text of the New English Bible divided into sec...
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150,17 zł |
Messages 3 Teacher's Resource Pack
ISBN: 9780521614368 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An attractive and innovative four-level course for lower-secondary students. The Teacher's Resource Pack provides photocopiable tests, extra activities and drills. Extra support is available online in the form of grammar worksheets, Portfolio Builders, EAL support and graded Infoquests with accompanying worksheets. A Teacher's Book containing teacher's notes, easy extension ideas, answer keys and tapscripts is available separately.
An attractive and innovative four-level course for lower-secondary students. The Teacher's Resource Pack provides photocopiable tests, extra activitie...
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401,30 zł |
The Canterbury Tales
ISBN: 9781515235576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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57,66 zł |
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143106951 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions exist of the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, Le Morte d'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory endures as the most moving and richly inventive. In this abridged retelling the inimitable Peter Ackroyd transforms Malory's fifteenth-century work into a dramatic modern...
Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation The names of Arthur, Merli...
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78,80 zł |
Words and Meanings
ISBN: 9780521112055 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The editors of this volume have gathered a team of scholars to write a series of studies dealing with problems of meaning and interpretation of Old Testament words and ideas. The volume in is honour of Professor D. Winton Thomas, formerly Regius Professor of Hebrew at Cambridge University; its theme is one with which he has been much concerned and the contributors - colleagues, pupils and friends - mainly from Great Britain but also from other countries, offer a variety of meaning, of interpretation and of use, in the biblical text itself and in ancient translations and other writings. The...
The editors of this volume have gathered a team of scholars to write a series of studies dealing with problems of meaning and interpretation of Old Te...
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155,18 zł |
The First Book of Samuel
ISBN: 9780521096355 / Angielski / Miękka / 1971 / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Professor Ackroyd's introduction summarizes the place of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament canon, its relationship with history and its theological purpose.
The main divisions of the text are those provided by the New English Bible itself, but the text is further subdivided for the purposes of the commentary, which draws out the kind of significance indicated in the introduction. As in the series of Cambridge Bible Commentaries on the New English Bible New Testament, short passages of text and the editor's commentary are interspersed so that the reader does not have to refer to... Professor Ackroyd's introduction summarizes the place of the First Book of Samuel in the Old Testament canon, its relationship with history and its th...
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205,25 zł |
The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
ISBN: 9780143106173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair) now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging
Renowned novelist, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents it in a prose vernacular that makes it accessible to readers while preserving the spirit of the original. A mirror for medieval society, The Canterbury Tales concerns a motley group of pilgrims who meet in a London inn on their way to Canterbury and agree to take part in a storytelling competition. Ackroyd's contemporary prose emphasizes the... "A romp for the ages" (Vanity Fair) now with a graphic cover and deluxe packaging
Renowned novelist, historian, and biograp... |
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91,25 zł |
Our Mutual Friend
ISBN: 9780099533535 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. John Harmon is a young man estranged from his family, yet on his way from South Africa to London to receive his inheritance. But, according to his father's will, he can only claim it if he marries Bella Wilfer, a beautiful London girl whom he has never met. Before John arrives to claim his birthright, an unknown body is found drowned in the Thames and identified as him. The money passes instead to family servants Mr. and Mrs. Boffin, who welcome into their home the disappointed bride-to-be. But when their associate Silas Wegg tries to blackmail the Boffins with an alternative will, Bella must...
John Harmon is a young man estranged from his family, yet on his way from South Africa to London to receive his inheritance. But, according to his fat...
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31,57 zł |
Bleak House: With an Introduction by Peter Ackroyd
ISBN: 9780099533528 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 960 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. As the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce--a long and hopeless lawsuit over a disputed will--drags slowly on through the courts, it begins to wear down all those caught in its complicated web. Esther Summerson, an orphan placed in the care of the kind and gentle John Jarndyce at Bleak House, can only watch on as the people she loves are consumed by the proceedings. But when Esther's past comes looking for her, will the discovery of her true identity finally lead her to the answers she has been searching for?
As the case of Jarndyce vs. Jarndyce--a long and hopeless lawsuit over a disputed will--drags slowly on through the courts, it begins to wear down all...
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31,57 zł |
A Traveller's Companion To London
ISBN: 9781623717575 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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70,30 zł |
The Mystery of Edwin Drood
ISBN: 9780099533542 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Dickens' final, unfinished novel has inspired generations of speculation Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputation is flawless yet privately he leads an immoral life, frequenting squalid opium dens. Although outwardly he seems delighted with the betrothal of his nephew Edwin Drood to Rosa Bud, one of his choristers, secretly he is consumed by jealousy. But he is not alone in hoping for Edwin's demise. Among others, hot-tempered Neville Landless has also made an enemy of Drood--so when Edwin disappears, at whom should the accusing finger point?
Dickens' final, unfinished novel has inspired generations of speculation Choirmaster John Jasper is a man of deep hypocrisy. His public reputat...
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31,57 zł |
London: A Pilgrimage
ISBN: 9781843311935 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 'London: A Pilgrimage' was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jerrold prowled every corner of the heaving metropolis, sometimes with plain-clothes police for protection. 'London: A Pilgrimage' is a forgotten classic of social journalism, a frank and brutal look at the poverty striken, gin-swilling London of the nineteenth century, written in a perceptive, bold and gripping style. 180 incredible etchings by Dore escort Jerrold on his odyssey through the pulsating city, into the Lambeth gas works, seedy... 'London: A Pilgrimage' was conceived in 1868 by the journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold. Accompanied by the famous artist Gustave Dore, Jer... |
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78,59 zł |